Overview participating exhibitions
Land
2010
Land
Sohrab Hura
LAND OF A THOUSAND STRUGGLES (India, 2006)
While urban areas in India are blossoming rapidly economically, the countryside remains far behind in terms of development. The increasing scarcity of agricultural land is a problem, because the ma-jority of the Indian population are still farmers. Over the past sixty years hundreds of thousands of people have been driven from their ancestral lands in the name of progress, to make way for indus-trial projects, or have left of their own volition because there was no work in the area. This has proven to be a seedbed for movements that struggle for the right to work, sometimes resorting to violence. They sometimes succeed – the National Employment Guarantee Act of 2005 guarantees every household a hundred days work per year, at the minimum wage – but more often they do not. More than the development of its cities, says photographer Sohrab Hura, the situation in the coun-tryside is the measure of the health of a society.
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LAND OF A THOUSAND STRUGGLES (India, 2006)
While urban areas in India are blossoming rapidly economically, the countryside remains far behind in terms of development. The increasing scarcity of agricultural land is a problem, because the ma-jority of the Indian population are still farmers. Over the past sixty years hundreds of thousands of people have been driven from their ancestral lands in the name of progress, to make way for indus-trial projects, or have left of their own volition because there was no work in the area. This has proven to be a seedbed for movements that struggle for the right to work, sometimes resorting to violence. They sometimes succeed – the National Employment Guarantee Act of 2005 guarantees every household a hundred days work per year, at the minimum wage – but more often they do not. More than the development of its cities, says photographer Sohrab Hura, the situation in the coun-tryside is the measure of the health of a society.
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LAND OF A THOUSAND STRUGGLES (India, 2006)
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LAND OF A THOUSAND STRUGGLES (India, 2006)
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LAND OF A THOUSAND STRUGGLES (India, 2006)
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LAND OF A THOUSAND STRUGGLES (India, 2006)
The Pursuit of Happiness
2009
The Pursuit of Happiness
Sohrab Hura
LIFE IS ELSEWHERE (2008)
When Hura’s mother became a paranoid schizophrenic, life began to disintegrate.
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LIFE IS ELSEWHERE (2008)
When Hura’s mother became a paranoid schizophrenic, life began to disintegrate.
Biography
Sohrab Hura (India, 1981) was trained as an economist at Delhi University and the Delhi School of Economics. In his photographic work Hura exposes the human dimension of economic movements, such as in The Women’s Role in the Movement for the Right to Employment (2006), but he also makes personal documents like Life Is Elsewhere (2008), which was part of the 2009 Noorderlicht exhibition The Pursuit of Happiness. Hura lives and works in New Delhi.
